Taika Waititi Slams ‘Klara and the Sun’ Critics — SkimNews
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- Taika Waititi wrote on Instagram that he had not read a review of anything aimed at him or his peers in almost 15 years, while insisting, “I do listen to the people.”
- Waititi dismissed critics as “sad lost souls” who could not achieve their artistic ambitions, calling them “irrelevant,” “out of touch,” “obsolete” and “in the bin”; he also said the same people had hated “Jojo Rabbit.”
- Taika Waititi shared an Instagram post featuring the “Klara and the Sun” poster and Rotten Tomatoes’ 78% audience score; the film’s critic score was 28%, his lowest yet.
- Klara and the Sun debuted at No. 15 with $720,000 from 880 locations; after reviews called it “calamitous” and a “strained, whimsical comedy that’s ruinous,” Sony scaled back its theatrical footprint.
- Jenna Ortega told Vogue that she avoids reading reviews because doing so would send her into “a psychosis of some sort” and does not check box-office updates sent by her team because she does not want it to become “a numbers thing.”
- Klara and the Sun adapts Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel and follows an obsolete companion android trying to bond with a young sick girl in a dystopian future.
Why it matters: After panned reviews, Sony scaled back the theatrical footprint, leaving fewer theaters carrying the film following a No. 15 debut that produced $720,000 from 880 locations; Waititi instead amplified the film’s 78% audience score against its 28% critic score on Instagram.
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